The Senate State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee killed three contested bills — a school personnel misconduct registry (SB 26-055), a school board sub-district election mandate (SB 26-057), and an automatic voter registration overhaul (SB 26-058) — each falling 2-3, while unanimously advancing a dual-officeholding prohibition (SB 26-059) and four History Colorado board appointments.
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Senator Baisley argued there is no sufficient existing tool, citing Jefferson County and Douglas County superintendents as confirming the need. Megan Rains (CEA) countered that existing reporting requirements and licensure consequences under state law already exist, making the bill a duplicative system with potential unintended consequences that harm educators.
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“This legislation harkens back to an era of Colorado election regulations that make it harder for voters to participate, particularly by creating secondary tiers of voters, including pending and problematically inactive, a status we saw Secretary of State abuse, as has been referenced in 2012, by removing mail in voter roll people from the vote, mail in voter rolls who were designated under it.”
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Sign in to subscribeDirect director DePrince, if you want to get us started. Great. Thank you. Madam Chair. My name is Don DePrince. I am the President and CEO for History Colorado. History Colorado is nearly as old as the state of Colorado itself, which I think you all know has been around 150 years this year. Yes, we were founded in 1879. One of the first things that the founders of our state felt like the state of Colorado needed to make sure that we had an official state memory. And we are here today to introduce you to several of these fine individuals from around the state of Colorado who have been nominated by the governor to serve as members of the History Colorado Board of Directors. I will just quickly introduce them all and then they can share more about themselves. We have Bonnie. Well, I will start at the end. Zeb Zebulon, Miracle. He made the drive here from Grand Junction. Today he serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Royce Hearst Humane Society in Mesa County. Born and raised in Grand Junction, he is passionate about his western Colorado community where he has served in a variety…
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